Dear Editor,

Cicero wrote, “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

We are developing within our country a generation of young people who are having their past removed and changed by the leftist socialist progressives.

Why is that? Because he who controls the past, controls the future and who controls the present controls the past. The sad part of this is that it is the elites of the world who push this dystopian view. If the people ever really got control of government the powers that control our lives, (media, academia, corporations, Wall St., courts, the federal bureaucracy) lose their control. They are eliminating history and beginning fresh. Many of our young people are not taught the evil of socialism, which leads to communism, and eventually becomes totalitarianism. Many of our young from the upper middle class are the leading provocateurs of this so-called socialist revolution. They are being used. What is coming is soft totalitarianism. It is a mixture of surveillance capitalism and social justice. If you want an example of it, look to China and its social credit system of government. A totalitarian government and corporate power through consumer control and social justice erode freedoms to the point that one cannot speak to truth. You will be denied the right to buy or sell without supporting their one party system. You become a non-person and eventually disappear into a Chinese re-education camp or murdered. America is already quickly shifting from freedom of speech and thought to where all our actions are being controlled by a one party government beholden to a super tech oligarchy. Our young people are being taught daily in our schools to hate the Bible, the founders, the constitution, and the color of skin. This is not America. This is a dystopian combination of the books “1984” and “Brave New World.” The book of Revelation is right around the corner. “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17) Please repent.

Randy Marple

Shadyside